HI- watched "One flew over the Cuckoo's nest" (again), every time I have seen the record player that's in the nurses office playing 45's, I have wondered what kind it is.

At first glanvce, I thought it was a RCA 45 model, but last night I spied an emblem on it that looks like it could have been a Telefunken unit. It has the 45 only spindle, but it also had 4 push button switches on the top right side.

Huh...I didn't notice that. Probably because I wasn't into record players the last time I saw the movie.

"Cuckoo" was on AMC last night...great movie, But I didn't watch it. The last part and ending make me mad and sad. It was filmed at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem.

Author Ken Kesey lived nearby here in Pleasant Hill, Or. They have a bronze statue of him sitting on a bench here in downtown Eugene reading to children - he was also known for his famous tale of a NW Timber Family -"Sometimes a Great Notion". It too was made into a motion picture, starring Henry Fonda as the family's patriarch.

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I work right around the corner from that hospital here in Salem. They tore most of it down and rebuilt it. I think they kept one of the original buildings. Sometimes they let some of the low risk patients walk around. I've had a few wander down to where I work. Makes the day interesting.....

Huh...confusing. Could it possibly be a Telefunken spindle on a ELAC Record Player ? The logo on top of the spindle has the characteristic Telefunken Logo with the square within the triangle; however the ELAC Logo does not... and that looks like the logo on the record player itself does not. Huh.

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I worked in a unit like that right after Nursing school in 1996. Never a boring day, but some scary ones

I'll bet ! I, at one time thought of going into that line of work as I was always fascinated with human psychology, and felt eminently qualified from years of dealing with nutcases in my own family. Probably most families have at least one.

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During my training, I had to rotate through a locked VA psych ward..... There was a record player in the rec room - but only 1 LP - believe it or not, it was Boots Randolph "Yackety Sax" (aka Benny Hill theme song) and it played non-stop. If you weren't nuts before staying there - you'd sure be afterwards.....